Jürgen Schmidhuber joins Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor
hardmaru · x · 2026-09-25
- Sakana AI announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber is joining as Chief Scientific Advisor alongside his current roles, working with its Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab.
- The announcement traces his contributions: the 1987 thesis on learning to learn, world models in 1990, the 2018 "World Models" paper with Sakana CEO David Ha, and meta-learning work that opened the path to recursive self-improvement—ideas that shaped Sakana's Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist.
- Schmidhuber framed the future as physical AI powered by world models, not just language; Sakana also touts reversing Japan's AI brain drain and will host a public event in Tokyo in late October.
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